While manager Bryan Price has said he expects his rotation to include Luis Castillo, Homer Bailey, Anthony DeSclafani and Brandon Finnegan with a fifth starter to be determined, DeSclafani and Finnegan are both coming off of years mostly lost to injury.

PECOTA expects DeSclafani to make 16 starts with Robert Stephenson and Sal Romano getting 23 apiece.

The projection also includes Jesse Winker getting 60 percent of the playing time in right field and 10 percent in left field with Scott Schebler getting 40 percent of the time in right and 20 percent in left.

How those things actually shake out remains to be seen.

The other projected division winners are the Dodgers, Nationals, Astros, Indians and Yankees.

Bekah Vine scored 19 points to help Bellbrook hold off a Chaminade Julienne rally for a 68-64 win in a girls Division II sectional basketball game on Wednesday. Vine led four players in double-digit scoring for Bellbrook. Maren Freudenchuss and Cassidy Hofacker each had 11 and Siera Ferguson tallied 10. Dallas Jones paced CJ with 15 points. Girls Basketball...

The University of Dayton women’s basketball team made it 16 in a row Wednesday night. The Flyers (22-4, 15-0) rallied from a controversial end of the third quarter to score a 71-66 victory over George Mason and clinch the outright regular-season Atlantic 10 title. Dayton’s Jordan Wilmoth tipped in a missed layup by Lauren Cannatelli just...